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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids playing for free dominate the kids (parents) spending over $10,000 per season?

So what's the $$$$$ getting you?[/quote]

Well, our mlsnext team was $2500 this year, less than many other third and fourth teams.  We have never paid anywhere close to $10k.[/quote]

Wow, $2,500 for yearly fee would indeed be among the lowest for any regular travel club in DMV.

Who pays for gear, equipment, all travel expenses (gas, hotel, food, flights etc)?
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It was less than $300 round trip to fly to west coast. group hotel rates are cheap. It certainly wasn't an additional $8k for all of that.[/quote]

Justification self therapy hard at work :-)

So you're saying you and your son flew to the West Coast from DMV for a tournament and paid under $150 each round trip?
You may be on to something in how to do MLS Next on the cheap. 
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You have spent all morning shifting arguments.  Abandoning your prior positions by restatement is still abandoning your prior positions.  Get some critical thinking skills into your life please.[/quote]

How's this for critical thinking.
Philly Union completely dominated the two biggest MLS Next Affiliate clubs from the DMV. They showed they are on a completely different higher level.
It is free for parents whos kids are at Philly Union.

To wear the MLS Next badge on their shoulder, honest parents at affiliate clubs state they are spending around $10K annually in expenditures. 
So, what is the true value for spending that much money? 
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Why do u care so much how other parents spend their money? Good for them, they have the money to spend. If it doesn’t make sense financially for you, then good for u to know that. 
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The question you should be asking and the point to place your focus should be, why are we all forced to pay this much into a system that fails in general to develop and produce high quality players.
How can it make "financial sense" to anyone? 
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I’m assuming parents are doing that already. But also what can parents do now? Pull their kids out of soccer until something changes? Spend all their time and resources to find alternatives?

I like to give parents the benefit of the doubt that they are working with what is available now bc they don’t have the luxury of time to wait arnd for better options.

And I’m also going to assume parents are taking charge of their kids development. We are. My kid will play MLSNext and if they don’t get into a youth academy by U15, we have a backup plan.

But no matter how good your kid is, it’s still a lot of work to research opportunities for your child and advocate for them especially when you do not have connections to the soccer community. At the end of the day, the kids that are going to be the most successful are those who are born into the soccer world and to parents who know what to do from the get go. 
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